Even though the rest of the world has moved past the GameCube and onto the Wii, Los Angeles film production company Morgan Creek Productions is still hung on one particular GameCube game... or should I say GameCube game ad.
On June 12th, Morgan Creek filed suit against Nintendo for the use of a song called "You're So Cool" from the movie True Romance. It was used in a commercial for the game Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door for the GameCube almost half a decade ago.
The 1993 film was directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino, and featured an original score by Hans Zimmer.
No worries, though. According to GamePolitics, the suit was dismissed less than a week after being filed. There's no word on why yet.
No offense to Hans or Nintendo, but this song sucks! It does nothing for the game or the commercial viewer. Why not use music from the game's score? If I remember correctly, there were some pretty good tunes in there.
I never saw True Romance. Was it any good? Oh, and don't you think that the the Paper Mario sequels pale in comparison to the original?
Dale North is Destructoid's Editor-In-Chief, a founding editor, and specialist in Japanese gaming. An accomplished musician, Dale was reporting from Japan during the earthquakes of 2011. Luckily, he got the fuck out alive and is home in America now with his wife and beloved corgi, Einstein. Dale is also a co-founder of Destructoid's sister anime site
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11:11 AM on 06.25.2008
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As for your question Dale: I haven't played TTYD, but I very much disliked the first Paper Mario. My favorite is still Legend of the Seven Stars; though Superstar Saga was great, too.
How could you not like Paper Mario?
Also, I love that commercial.
Dale step away from the computer and get your ass to Blockbuster right now.
AND Mista Smegheneghan you should play supermario rpg, one of the best snes games evar
On the lawsuit front though, I wonder why it was dismissed as well. Good write-up, by the way.
Christian Slater
Particia Arquette
Dennis Hopper
Christopher Walken
Gary Oldman
Sam Jackson (bit part)
James Gandolfini
Val Kilmer (elvis)
A comic nerd who falls in love with a whore. Hilarity and gun violence ensue.
Go, netflix it or rent it now. It is awesome.
What? Super Paper Mario was insanely crazy in about a million ways! It stretched, manipulated, pinched, and squeezed genres, and it was damned funny.
Now with that being said, did Nintendo not do their homework? If you use someone else's music like that, you're supposed to pay the licensing fee! How did that get passed their marketing people?
On the bright side, I'm now really tempted to add True Romance to my Blockbuster cue.
Also, "almost half a decade ago" is obviously an attempt to make people think it's a long time by using the word decade. I can't beleive that one little line made me analyze linguistics for 10 mins.
Dale, I love you for no apparent reason.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNe5MSAHPjk
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